Friday, May 11, 2007

10,000 Workers Go On Strike at Deutsche Telekom

An AP newswire article, via The Mercury News, reports that:

Some 10,000 employees of Deutsche Telekom AG walked off their jobs Friday, starting the first major strike against Europe's biggest telecommunications company since it was privatized more than a decade ago.

The move was the first of what could ultimately involve more than 20,000 employees of the Bonn-based company, which has seen its earnings fall amid a customer exodus from its fixed-line systems even as it moves to expand its cell phone and Internet access base both in Germany and abroad.

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